Saturday, June 5, 2010

On Writing and Mental Instability

I was thinking today on my writing process, which seems a bit haphazard and causes me to doubt whether I'll ever actually complete anything. My stories come out in bits and pieces, due mainly to the fact that I'm dealing with very temperamental characters who chose to share only what they feel like sharing at any given moment.

This is also why I think I'm slightly mentally unstable, because my characters live in my head and talk to me XD Don't get me wrong, I know they're figments of my imagination and only live outside my head in writing, so I'm not completely crazy. I just wonder if there are any other authors whose characters are quite so...lively.

Belial, whose name was obviously borrowed from biblical resources, is the most vocal of all my characters, so the majority of what I know of him and my other characters is because of him. He's very sarcastic and cynical, so I'm not sure how much of what he says is truth or what can be taken at face value.